10/15/2026
Join me at the The Zethor Foundation page tonight at 7 to celebrate your sweet babes. 💗
🕯️ October 15 | Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day 🕯️
Some babies are carried in our arms. Others are carried in our hearts for a lifetime. All of them matter. All of them deserve to be remembered.
Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, a day to honor the babies who died during pregnancy, at birth, or in infancy, and the families who love and miss them.
This day has a history rooted in love, grief, and advocacy. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed October Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, helping bring public recognition to losses that had too often been met with silence. Over time, grieving parents and advocates helped establish October 15 as a special day of remembrance.
And while awareness matters, what matters even more is making space for the babies and the families behind it.
Because pregnancy and infant loss is not just a statistic. It's a baby who had a name. A due date circled on a calendar. A heartbeat. A nursery that may have been waiting. A lifetime of hopes and dreams. A child whose existence changed someone's world, no matter how briefly they were here.
And not every loss looks the same. Miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, and neonatal or infant death all deserve compassion and acknowledgment. Whether a pregnancy ended in its earliest weeks or a baby died after birth, no one should have to prove the depth of their grief.
Today, I want to make space for your babies.
If you feel comfortable, I would be honored to hear about them in the comments.
🩷 Tell me their name, if they have one.
🩷 Tell me when they were born, or when they were due.
🩷 Tell me who they looked like, what you remember, or what you imagined their life might have been.
🩷 Tell me something you wish the world knew about them.
You can share as much or as little as you want. You can leave a heart, a name, or simply read along. There is no right way to grieve, and there is no obligation to share.
Tonight at 7 p.m., families around the world will participate in the Wave of Light, lighting candles in their local time zones to remember babies gone too soon. As the candles are lit across the world, a wave of remembrance moves from one time zone to the next. Join us here at 7 to talk, share your stories and find comfort in others.
To every parent missing a baby today: Your baby matters. Your story matters. And your love doesn't have an expiration date.
We will say their names. We will remember their stories. And we will make space for them, today and always. 🕯️
